{"id":31849,"date":"2013-12-17T21:01:51","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T02:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=31849"},"modified":"2013-12-17T21:01:51","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T02:01:51","slug":"ncaa-basketball-predictions-stanford-cardinal-vs-connecticut-huskies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball-predictions-stanford-cardinal-vs-connecticut-huskies-31849\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Basketball Predictions: Stanford Cardinal vs. Connecticut Huskies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stanford Cardinal vs. Connecticut Huskies
\nWednesday, 12\/18\/13, 9:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Connecticut -8
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Connecticut -7
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Connecticut Huskies haven’t played in 12 days<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Stanford has won back-to-back games, including an 83-56 victory over UC Davis as 22-point home favorites last Saturday, while going UNDER the betting total in each of those contests.\u00a0 The Cardinal have four probable starters averaging in double figures, with junior guard Chasson Randle leading the way in scoring 18.2 points per game, which is important to consider when making your college basketball betting picks.\u00a0 The program is looking for its first win in five attempts against Connecticut.\u00a0 Stanford is 0-4 SUATS as road underdogs of 6.5 to 9 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Cardinal have traveled 11,523 miles during non-conference play entering Wednesday\u2019s affair, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college basketball odds page.\u00a0 Stanford is 59-19 SU against out of conference foes under head coach Johnny Dawkins.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is averaging 81.9 points per game on 50.4 percent shooting, which is far better than scoring 69.3 points a contest on 40.1 percent shooting a season ago.<\/p>\n

Connecticut is coming off a 12-day break for final exams, at it was last seen picking up a 95-68 victory over Maine on Dec. 6.\u00a0 The Huskies have one of the best all-around players in the country, with point guard Shabazz Napier topping the team in averaging 15.3 points, 7.0 rebounds and 5.9 assists per game.\u00a0 Nine teams in program history have begun a season with a 10-0 record, while the best start came during the 1998-99 campaign.\u00a0 Connecticut is 6-2 SU and 5-3 ATS as home favorites of 6.5 to 9 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Huskies are shooting a nation-best 46.5 percent from beyond the arc, with five players making 10 or more shots from the three-point area on the season.\u00a0 \u201cA lot of us go back to the gym at night,\u201d commented Connecticut guard Ryan Boatright.\u00a0 Napier has connected on 16 of 28 shots from that particular area, which makes him a threat offensively from every spot on the floor.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Huskies due to their 4-1 SU record when playing with seven or more days rest since the 2011-12 campaign.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a winning season and let the college basketball handicappers at Maddux Sports line your pockets with cash.\u00a0 Long term packages are available now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stanford Cardinal vs. Connecticut Huskies Wednesday, 12\/18\/13, 9:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Connecticut -8 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Connecticut -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 N\/A Current Total:\u00a0 N\/A Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Stanford has won back-to-back games, including an 83-56 victory over UC Davis as 22-point home favorites last Saturday, while going UNDER the betting total in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":26027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[7337,2499,5668,6002,2528],"class_list":["post-31849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-chasson-randle","tag-connecticut-huskies","tag-ryan-boatright","tag-shabazz-napier","tag-stanford-cardinal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31851,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31849\/revisions\/31851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}